How many hot dogs have you eaten throughout your life? Take that times 36 minutes. That’s how much life you have robbed from yourself.
That’s what a new study is suggesting. They studied a bunch of foods and the effects on health and then ranked everything. Apparently all the processed meat in a single hot dog on a bun will knock off just over a half hour of your life. On the flip side, eating a serving of nuts, like cashews, will add 36 minutes back on the clock. My favorite finding is that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich adds 33 minutes. I wonder how that’d change if it were one of my famous peanut butter and M&M sandwiches?
They broke the foods into three categories. The best are nuts, fruits, field-grown vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and some seafood. No surprise that the worst included meats.
By the way, someone did the math and found that Joey Chestnut, a world famous hot dog eating champ, had chomped off 1.3 years of his life because of hot dogs.
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